Report
On June 15, 2011 under the auspices of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) at Georgetown University, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik (DGAP) convened an off-the-record informal workshop, “Trilateral Conference: US-EU-Russia” to examine current relations between the US, EU and Russia in the context of prevailing events of the past.
Within this context experts discussed economic dealings and security ties as well as their present and future importance for the aforementioned three global players. The workshop sessions brought together top-level civil servants from all three regions as well as academics, journalists and distinguished members of the international think tank community. The following report both outlines the discussion of the conference and analyzes its most important outcomes.